Exeter College Thomas Wood Building

A range of late 19th Century neo-gothic style buildings by Sir George Gilbert Scott (architect of St Pancras Station in London) originally occupied this north west corner of the college. They and the adjacent chapel, also by Scott, made the courtyard very dark, and the whole area was considered unsatisfactory. In the 1960s the plot was redeveloped by Brett & Pollen. Comprising chiefly of student accommodation, the main block on Broad Street has three upper floors, a pitched roof attic level and a basement/mezzanine, the latter given to retail use. Around the corner in Turl Street, the ground floor is also put to retail use but is split into three components reflecting the smaller scale of the street. The first is the return of the main block. Next is a lower block which connects to a tower that in turn links to the chapel. The simple, modernist, ashlar cladding is a perfect foil to Scott's gothic stonework. The sculpture "Another Time" by Antony Gormley was erected on the roof in 2009